Precise ELA Telescoping Mod by Super-T!

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9ball_AJ

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I daresay most mark bugs devices end up on the classifieds because of the touch sensor. In order for the touch sensor to activate, there has to be some moisture in your skin. There's a popular spurious idea that licking your finger is the only way to get a WA to fire. That's lazy and weird, but that's what sellers of these devices wish to trade away.

I've got an apprentice that will probably never see the classifieds until I give up vaping. It's very well built and quite an efficient use of space. And apparently I don't have the dry skin problem plaguing so many others. Check out the apprentice 18650 next to the p+ 18500:

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Both are excellent devices. Truth be told, I still use the p+ more often than the wa. But someday I would love to see David combine the diminutive size of newer devices such as the apprentice and caravela with the superlative aspects of his p+ line.

Yeah, most people don't "get" the touch switches. They're much like our touch screens.... they simply don't work if you tap with a fingernail... because its dead tissue! Touch sensors pickup the electrostatic in our bodies. So, if your skin is overly dry, then its just like tapping a touchscreen with a fingernail!

I wonder why there are so many people with such dry skin out there... what are they doing that they're so dry!?!?

I love my Wizard's Apprentice, but I had some issues with the touch sensor. Not just due to dry skin, which I don't suffer from. Even with moist hands :shock: the device would only "halfway fire" on occasion. But it drove me nuts. The PCB in the WA is a poorly functioning switch IMO, and it carries an amp limit of 4.1 amps IIRC. That would limit the user to about a 1 ohm coil. I had the PCB replaced by another Romanian Modder and now the switch is ultra sensitive to the lightest touch. The amp limitation is higher as well, removing that 1 ohm limitation, although a 1 ohm coil on an unregulated device is my sweet spot. I also replaced the stock battery spring with a gold plated one, and now this WA hits just as hard as my P+'s.

The size of the WA is quite amazing. Even with the switch electronics my WA 18500 is about the same size as a P+18350. The P+ has some advantages over the WA and many other unregulated devices out there, which is why I will always have a P+ in my arsenal.

I love my P+'s and my SW, the wiring in the switch of the SW doesn't bother me in the slightest, as there are no electronics in there to fail. IMO it is still a "fully mechanical" device as the switch action is still mechanical, not electronic. I also agree that "mechanical" is a buzz word in our lovely community that isn't fully understood by many, including myself apparently :lol: :D
 

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The Super-T Simplicity line is fully mechanical. No wires. :)

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I like it-no wires...

Actually, that 26650 simplicity wasn't all mechanical, it had on conventional wire type switch.
Thanks for the clarifacation.... The Shockwave is the only side fire button that SuperT produced so far.... I love it, wire and all!:wub:
Plus the Master on/off switch.....with the big "T" as in SuperT....very cool:2cool:
 
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so, for dummies (like me), a cursory scan of the posts shows:
Shockwave (26650 batt): released, no plans for more production... wired side button... (amp limit?)
Simplicity (26650 batt): not released yet.. same side button. more "simple" than SW.

Shockwave has a 10 amp limit. Simplicity probably doesn't have the ratcheting master switch, the ingenious top cap with the plunger, etc. I also suspect the contacts may not be rhodium or gold plated, for the sake of affordability.
 
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